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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Participants are taken out of their day-to-day workplaces to be inspired by expert faculty, work on case studies, receive personal feedback, and take away the latest leadership thinking (and badges for their résumés). Influence participants’ “being,” not just their “doing.”

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The Power of Listening in Helping People Change

Harvard Business Review

In a recent paper , we consistently demonstrated that experiencing high quality (attentive, empathic, and non-judgmental) listening can positively shape speakers’ emotions and attitudes. Listening as an avenue for self-change was advocated by the psychologist Carl Rogers in a classic 1952 HBR paper. What Makes Listening Powerful?

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Research: We’re Not Very Self-Aware, Especially at Work

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve participated in a training or development program in the past two decades, chances are you took an assessment designed to increase self-awareness. Will Rogers rightly once quipped, “It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.”

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The Emotions That Make Us More Creative

Harvard Business Review

For example, pleasant is a positive emotion, but it has low motivational intensity. In contrast, desire is a positive emotion with high motivational intensity. If, however, you really need to buckle down and focus on making a new idea practical, high motivational intensity can be just the ticket.